Free

Series/Themes: Highlighting Cinema of Mexico, Indigenous Americans in Film, Mobile Cinema Series

Genre: Documentaries

Accessibility: Subtitles

Film Year: 2022

Locations: Mexico

Film Length: 80 min.

Languages: Spanish, Tzotzil

Subtitles: Yes.

Director: Xun Sero

Featuring: Hilda Rodríguez

Preceded by short film THE SKY IS VERY PRETTY

US Premiere | Pre-Festival Event | Free Program – No Tickets Needed

Mom is a documentary exploring the emotionally turbulent conversation between a son and his estranged mother. Mexican Tzotzil director Xun Sero resents his mother for his upbringing, significantly marked by his father’s absence. Through a conversation between the two, unspoken truths are confessed, repressed emotions unleashed, and mother and son truly see each other for perhaps the first time. The revelation of the abuse faced by his mother uncovers Sero’s own violent tendencies towards women, the first being his own mother. The documentary addresses issues of violence and strives to stimulate a social conversation regarding the shame that keeps victims silent. 

This film  part of the Mobile Cinema Series is presented by UVA Arts: supported by the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts.

This film is also part of the Indigenous Americans in Film Series presented by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

This film is also part of the Highlighting Mexican Cinema series supported by Mexican Cultural Institute in D.C.